Dark Romanticism

. I think that Nathaniel would be against the transdentalist because his great grandfather killed all the those people in the name of Jesus and I think he would feel that the very evil and wrong so he would disagree because with his grandfather killing all of those innocent people he would feel how could that be a act of god.

. I think that Herman Melville would be against it also because with him killing a shark, which is an endangered species, that would not be an act of god, and god would not approve of that.

. I think Edgar Allen Poe would be against the transdentalist because he proberly felt like if god was so loving and he spoke through people's mind why would he allow his father to disown him and why would his mother be taking away from him at that young age.

I am Closer to being a transdentalist because i believe in god very strongly and I feel that god speaks to people through their dreams and he sends visions to them I also feel that sometimes god speaks through people's mind, I also feel that the government is not really needed because people should be able to make their own decisions not President Bush making them for us I agree with all of the people who Believed in the Trendentalist because you should speak what you mean and not what someone else thinks, because if you do you will be misunderstood.



But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
Edgar Allen Poe was talking about how he felt that he was going to die the next day and that today he was going to let all of his burdens go, he felt that in his life he has had to deal with alot of stuff that he would rather not talk about he felt that some people wouldn't think that the stuff he has been through was bad, but normal. His mother and father died when he was very young, John Allen and his wife Fanny Allen later adopted him. He loved pets and his parents spoiled him with pets. After a while Edgar started to mistreat his animals the only one he didn't mistreat was Pluto who was his cat. Edgar's wife felt that black cats were witches in disguise but Edgar never paid it any attention. One night when he came home drunk He brutally killed his cat because he felt that a demon had entered his body. Then one day out of nowhere another black cat appeared at Poe's house with one eye gone the same as Pluto I feel that cat's have 9 lives and that was Pluto returning to haunt poe for what he had done I do feel that a demon had entered poe's body because he once was a nice sweet man then all of a sudden he turned evil and cruel and I think he disagreed with the trandentalist because he felt that god would not of allowed him to kill Pluto in cold blood it was a act of the devil.

“While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping at the chamber door.” “ For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore nameless here for evermore.”
I think the poem was talking about how god came and knocked at his door and called Lenore's name to come and take her home I think this is anti-transdentalism because god does speak through people's mind and Poe thought that god was speaking through his mind to tell Lenore that the angels were coming to get her to take her home to be with god.

Edgar Allen Poe was born to David Poe jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins they later died when he was only 3 yrs. Old he had 1 brother & 1 sister they were both cared by other people Edgar was taken in the home of John Allan and his wife Fanny Allan. Edgar had a very uneventful childhood Edgar never really got along with john. Edgar studied for 5 years in England. In 1826 he entered the University of Virginia but studied for only 1 year because Allan refused to pay because he ran up Gambling debts. And he called off his engagement to his Richmond sweetheart so Poe decided to enroll in the army without any support. While he was in the army his Adoptive mother died, he sent a letter to his father saying this " If she had not have died while I was away there would have been nothing for me to regret your love I never valued but she I believed loved me as her own child". Edgar was soon released from the army, and he went to stay with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia in Baltimore. In 1835 Poe and his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond and he become editor of the southern Literary and later married Virginia who was not yet 14 yrs. Old. In April of 1833 Edgar wrote to John Allan again begging for money to "save him from destruction". Allan refused to give him any help because of his attitude. On March 27,1834 John Allan died and Edgar didn't get a dime out of his will. In 1842 Virginia began to feel ill, Edgar encouraged her singing to make her a perfect musician, In January 1842 Virginia was bleeding from her mouth when she sang. She was diagnosed with early staged of tuberculosis, it hit Poe very hard, and in the spring of 1842 Poe started drinking again. In January of 1847 Virginia died and Poe continued to drink heavily and he suffered from paranoia In the summer of 1849 he was reunited with his fiancée. In October of 1849 Poe was found unconscious and taken to the hospital where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849 and his death still remains a Mystery. Edgar Allan Poe had a tragic life because his parents died, then he was taken in the home of a man who didn't love him so he turned to alcohol and it lead him on a path of destruction.